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I'll give it a 3.7 rating, rounded to a 4. Continuing on with my look at crime fiction history, I discovered this book, which the front cover says is "the first collection of detective stories (1827) in English." According to E.F. Bleiler's introduction, true authorship of this book is unknown (well, at least it was in 1976 when this volume was published), although the names of two different men (Thomas Surr or Thomas Gaspey) have been floated about as having written these tales. Bleiler dismiss...
Synopsis: from 1827. Stories of Richmond's life prior to becoming a Bow Street Runner. Includes five of his cases.
This book contains detective stories from 1827, which makes it one of the, if not the, first anthology of mysteries. If you like things like Sherlock Holmes, this book is for you.
